The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-06-09
News of Belfast and Vicinity.

summer visitors arc arriving and our streets are
full Of strangers
Strawberries were very plentiful in our market
last week, and retailcd for ten cents per box.
Mr.. George o. Bailey has hung large wire sign
across lower Main street from the Coliseum build
Ing.
The lumber for the Sherifs house and the library
arrived last week. 1t was delayed by the vessel
heeling OFF and filling at Bangor.
The recent wet weather is good for the hay crop
and the grass in the country never looked better.
The prospects arc favorable for large hay crop.
Mr.. c. j. Hall, of this city, received another
granite contract last week. Mr.. Hall has II large
amount of work on hand and is receiving new or
ders all the time.
The Mt Desert land specializing fever has taken
hold of some of our citizens. Hon. S. l.. Milliken
is reported to have made promising investment
In Bar iiarbor lands.
Miss Georgia Thombs presented to Thomas II.
Marshall Post a handsome banner which was sold
by ticket, realizing $500, which has been added to
the monument fund. The banner was drawn by
II. q. Bcknell.
The Belfast High School will close on Wednes-
day, 22d inst, the exercises taking place In the
evening at the Belfast Opera House The gradual
ing class is composed of eight young ladies anu
two young gentlemen.
The Republican Club of Ward l. East Boston,
had q banquet last week, at which speeches were
made by GOV. Ames, ENGov. Long, Senator iIoar
and others. Principal Kelley, of the Chapman
School, formerly of the Belfast High School, is on
the executive committee of this club and was pres
cnt at the banquet, and among the guests was W.
G. Frye, Esq, of this city.
James Bowen, of this city, member Of the Sal
Walton Army, is i'll treated by the hoodluns about
| town. and was recently waylaid ON the bridge and
| roughly handled. Not only the individual mem
bcrs, but the meetings are interfcred with by
these hoodlums An officer ought to be sent to the
nightly meetings to maintain order and to protect
the well disposed who wish to attend the services.
Not having garden this year the package of
seeds James Wick sends annually to his friends Of
the press, was forwarded to Il relative in Canada,
who writes from Ottawa under date of May Both ::
"And now about the seeds. l planted them on
| saturday, April o3d. On the following Tuesday
| many of them were up, and on May 23d we had
lettuce and have hundreds of plants to set
out"
the month Of May, according to the record kept by
Mr.. l.. III. Murch, of this city, was 5s,4s which
was two degrees warmer than the average for May
of last year, and three degrees warmer than the
average May weather in the past twenty eight
years. In fact it was the warmcst May in all that
number of years with the single exception of May
1850. 1t raned on six days only. The highest
temperature for the month was 10 degrees and the
| lowest As.
The knights of Pythias of this city, had sup
per and dance at Picrces Paror Theatre last Fri
day evening. Before going to the hall the knights
were presented with four handsome chairs for the
principal officers of the lodge. The chairs were 4
gift from the ladies' wives and daughters of MEM
bers, and were manufactured by Mr.. Eben San
born. The presentation speech was made by Miss
Emma Cottrell, and the response by Chancellor
WEIGH 1t was very pleasant occasion and was
enjoyed by all present.
HORSE TALK Mr.. George o. Bailey and others
of this city, DESTROYS of having horse trot on
| the Park July 4th. Mr.. Bailey says guaranteed
purse of 5000 can be raised. ...Mr. Loretto Hay
| ford of this city, lost valuable colt last week.
The animal fell and hurt its head, and taking cold
died. Mrs +. NJ. Mcdonald of Portland, has
bought of Hon. James G. Blaine valuable pair of
Kentucky bays....It is reported that Rowe Emery,
Esq, of Frankfort, has refused an offer of $500
for his remarkable young horse, kentucky Won
der. Mr. Emery believes that he owns Il valuable
piece of horse flesh and proposes to kcepit.
Re-. John Moore delivered three lectures last
week in the vestry of the Baptist Church. The at
tendance small. The subjects of the lectures
were: monuments and Antiquities of Egypt"
"Darwinism and Evolution" ".Ancient America. ~
In the opinion of the lecturer the pyramids were
erected for religious purposes, the Egyptians
were very religious people. He claimed that all
the discoveries of time proved the correctness
of the Bible In this connection he referred to the
recent discovery of the mummies of Ramses H.,
the rharoah of the oppression, and his royal
daughter, the one who discovered Moses, when an
infant, on the banks of the Nile and adopted him.
The lecturer said Darwinism had no foundation in
| fact. He believed in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES from
| lower to higher grade in intelligence, &c.-but
| not from one species to another. In his lecture on
Ancient America he claimed that North America
was inhabited by white men long before Columbus,
and that Pcmaqud was then the central point he
| tween the st. CroiX and the Hudson rivers.
STEAMER NOTES. The Mary Morgan arrived at
Rockland. She is an iron paddle wheel steamer
of 800 tons, fast and will, good accommodations.
She went on her route between Bangor and Rock
land Monday. Besides low rates of fares to points
| on the river, mileage tickets will be issued, 500
| miles for $780, or at the low rate of II. cents u
mile. The following the officers: Captain,
Joseph Wentworth; Pilot, Captain Harry G. Con
cry; Purser, Lora Colby; Engineers, 3. J. Holmes
| nd NJathi I
Henry IIolyokc. The syndicate which runs the
boat is Differed follows: Charles Spear, Boston,
Presidents L. G. Sutton, st. John, y. b., Treasur-
er; Tyler X. Wasgatt, Manager. 3. The Florence
has been sold to Capt. Iadlock and others, and
will run between Cranberry Isle and south West
Harbor The price paid is reported as $4,000. The
Florence made her last trip from Belfast Saturday.
The Island people are talking Of having boat of
| their own, with Capt Decker In command ;. The
new steamer Maud NJ. of the Pcnobscot Steam
Navigation Company, has had its name changed to
Adah.. The Mary Morgan made an excursion
down river from Bangor Sunday, touching at Bel
fast. Northport and other points on the bay. Mr..
L. NJ. Bartlett was in Belfast Saturday, in the in
terest of steamer Lucy p. Miller, which is run be
tween Bangor and New York. :. The Penobscot ar.
| rived from Boston at $50 \. NJ, Wednesday. She
u'tu Dig 1fclSnt down.. Tie shaft ordered
! for the Lewiston WIS found on examination to be
defective and was rejected. This will delay her
| coming upon the route. THE Lucy +. Miller, the
freight boat that Is run between New York and
Bangor, landing at Intermediate ports, arrived
here on Monday, on her first trip from the west
The Miller Is screw steamer of ;E}3 tons She
was built in Philadelphia In 1873, and halls from
Key West. Capt Rogers, of Frankfort, commands
her. The boat had good freight for Bangor, but
not much for Belfast. She made her landing here
at Lewis wharf.
PERSONAL. Mrs. Dunnclls, of San Diego, Cal. :,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Moore,
| after an absence of p years. REV. W. IT, VIII
! liams, of IIoulton, was in the city last week to
look after the printing of the Conference report.
lie was called home before completing the work by
the illness of his children, but who are now, we
| are glad to learn on the road to recovery Mr..
A. G. Hunt went to Bar Harbor last week on a
business trip. Frank A. Conant is located In
| Santa Barbara, California and has a fine business
In Watches clocks and jewelry. He likes Califor-
mia very much, and his many Belfast friends Will
be glad to learn that he is prospecting Hon. S. l..
NIilken has accepted an invitation to be present
| In Ellsworth on the Fourth of July, on the occa
sion of the unwilling of the soldiers monument,
and be one of the speakers Joseph Williamson,
Jr. (of Belfast IS, oiliciated master of cerc-
monies at the Bowdoin athletic sports June I'd,
| and was presented as the "witty man" at the Ivy
Day exercises on the 3d....Mr. ii. +. Sanborn, of